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Friday Links | February 4, 2011


Posted by fatemeh on 04 Feb 2011 / 0 Comment
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  • The common-law wife of an accused terrorist in Edmonton, Canada, speaks out after his arrest. More here.
  • The Los Angeles Times reports that Muslim and Jewish women grow close at monthly meetings about spirituality.
  • The Women’s Legal Centre in South Africa welcomed the draft of the Muslim Marriages Bill as a way forward for Muslim women and their rights.
  • A driver’s license mix-up provides The Daily Mail fodder on a slow news day.
  • Indonesia’s Center for Education and Information on Islam and Women’s Rights Issues (Rahima) is working to educate Muslim women about gender perspectives, sexual and reproductive health, and Islam.
  • The Federation of Muslim Women Association of Nigeria has appealed to all Muslim women, especially those in purdah, to make the most of the extension of the  voter registration period.
  • The Borneo Post examines how one woman’s successful business is shaped by songs and drama.
  • Maryam Keshavarz’s Circumstance wins Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. More here and here.

  • The Atlantic writes about why the picture of an older woman kissing an Egyptian soldier is a truly revolutionary act.
  • Pakistani actress Veena Malik takes on the clerics. More from The Express Tribune.
  • A community mourns for a woman in Kashmir.
  • One reporter works out how he feels about the niqab and burqa.
  • A court in Brussels has acquitted a Muslim woman who was taken to court for wearing the niqab.
  • Forbes looks at Egyptian women on the front lines of the protests. More from The Huffington Post. Jezebel looks at Mona Eltahawy as the talking head of the Egyptian protests.
  • A court battle between a Muslim woman in Ontario and her former employer gets nasty.
  • openDemocracy looks at the question of how to advance the family law rights of women in Britain’s Muslim communities.
  • Salon reports that gunmen kill female police officer in Pakistan.
  • On “fair skin” in marital ads.
  • A text message accidentally detonated a female suicide bomber who was planning to kill herself and others in Red Square. Allah is the best of planners.
  • Bangladesh paised for reducing acid attacks.
  • Azerbaijan warns religious extremists against protesting ban on headscarves.
  • Four people have been arrested in Bangladesh after the death of a 14-year-old girl who was given 100 lashes on the orders of a village cleric.
  • Muslim women in Jos, Nigeria, have appealed to warring factions in the state to to stop the killing.
  • Another news story about fashionable Muslim clothing!
  • A governor in Uttarakhand, India, tells young Muslim girls to “be a catalyst for change and instruments of women’s liberation.”
  • Germany prohibits niqabs at work for public employees.

If we missed any news about Muslim women from this week, feel free to leave links in the comments!

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